Cardiff airport

Saw this on the RTE news web site:

The new long-haul routes from Cork to Boston and New York will be serviced by B737-800 aircraft and the new B737MAX for which Norwegian Air International will be Boeing’s European launch customer.

3,000 miles in a 737
Does this mean the economics of transatlantic travel have changed, allowing regional airports such as Cardiff to use smaller cheaper plans.
I am a bit surprised that the 737-800 and the 737MAX is ETOPS compliant on such a long ocean journey.

Cardiff Airport records 21% year-on-year passenger increase

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/cardiff-airport-records-21-year-10225620

I am not sure where good ole Wales online are getting their data from, if not from a CWL/Edwina Heart Press Release!

CAA provisional figures Sep 2015 are due for release on 15/10/2015

Their latest figures available for August show a rolling year decrease of 2.1% for Cardiff Airport.

How many extra Ryanair flights were there for the RWC in Spetember?


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Two hours of arrivals into Cardiff this morning, this must contribute quite a bit to the figures for off peak months.

Flight No Airline Airport Time Status
VG906 VLM Vlaamse Luchttransportmaat Paris Le Bourget 10:35 Landed 10:37
ST2828 Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH Dublin 10:55 Landed 10:45
WX9364 City Jet Dublin 10:55 Landed 10:52
EI3294 Aer Lingus Dublin 11:00 Landed 11:08
EI3290 Aer Lingus Dublin 11:00 Landed 10:57
EY7887 Etihad Airways Dublin 11:00 Landed 10:57
RE4602 Stobart Air Dublin 11:10 Landed 11:13
FR5556 Ryanair Ltd Dublin 11:45 Landed 11:34
BE4531 Flybe Faro 11:50 Expected 12:10
KRP2082 Carpatair Paris CDG 12:00 Expected 12:05
LNQ101 Links Air Dublin 12:00
IGA732 SkyTaxi Paris Le Bourget 12:50
TOM6761 Thomson Airways Reus 13:05 Expected 12:50
CLJ427 Cello Aviation Sarajevo 13:10
A59060 HOP! Paris CDG 13:20

The airline which operates the Cardiff-Anglesey air route has had its safety licence revoked.

The words P*ss up and Brewery come to mind about the Assembly's running of the Cardiff Airport.

They want to devolve more powers to this lot?

It's a bit of a stretch to argue that the owners of the airport are responsible for the safety deficiencies of one of the airlines flying out of it.

Another operator has already stepped in, apparently.

Except the owners of the airport are the same as the ones that provided the £1.5m subsidy to LinksAir in the first place?
Due-diligence ???

I suspect the BBC were sat on with this story, as the initial copy was quiet rightly led on the safety aspect, within an hour it was how Edwina had come up with a rescue.
The CAA do not suspend Type B operating licences that often or do it with out a series of failures.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the new firm is now the 4th outfit to ferry our AM's from North to South Wales.

£184 per passenger subsidy just sums up what is wrong with the Labour run assembly.

Except the owners of the airport are the same as the ones that provided the £1.5m subsidy to LinksAir in the first place?
Due-diligence ???

I suspect the BBC were sat on with this story, as the initial copy was quiet rightly led on the safety aspect, within an hour it was how Edwina had come up with a rescue.
The CAA do not suspend Type B operating licences that often or do it with out a series of failures.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the new firm is now the 4th outfit to ferry our AM's from North to South Wales.

£184 per passenger subsidy just sums up what is wrong with the Labour run assembly.

Your conspiracy theories really are getting tedious. Still they're not as bad as your casual racism on the litter thread.

Cardiff Airport 'should be privatised', its ex-chairman says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34683248

Two stand out quotes for me.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe was appointed by the Welsh government in March 2013 when it bought the airport for £52m.

He told BBC News ministers were "absolutely right to take a very tough decision" to buy the airport in order to "stop the rot".

But he said it was "realistic" to expect the airport to be privatised within the next five years.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe, a crossbencher in the House of Lords, said he understood why many business people were concerned about the airport being taken into public ownership.

But he compared it to the banks when the UK government had to step in as an emergency measure to prevent them going out of business.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe said transatlantic flights were realistic in the future and there had been discussions with American, Asian and Far Eastern airlines.

Cardiff Airport 'should be privatised', its ex-chairman says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34683248

Two stand out quotes for me.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe was appointed by the Welsh government in March 2013 when it bought the airport for £52m.

He told BBC News ministers were "absolutely right to take a very tough decision" to buy the airport in order to "stop the rot".

But he said it was "realistic" to expect the airport to be privatised within the next five years.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe, a crossbencher in the House of Lords, said he understood why many business people were concerned about the airport being taken into public ownership.

But he compared it to the banks when the UK government had to step in as an emergency measure to prevent them going out of business.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe said transatlantic flights were realistic in the future and there had been discussions with American, Asian and Far Eastern airlines.